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iPad Fan

Yes! Massive improvement in battery life. Watching rugby, using Facebook app, playing games, web surfing, all notifications switched on, and averaging 20 hours, sometimes more. That's not including the tme it is in standby, that's just it's active time. As I've posted elsewhere, I do let the battery completely die before charging, and charge fully before use.

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iPad Fan

Hmm mine seems to worse, but that's probably because I am using it more since IOS 5 upgrade.
I'll have to do a proper test.

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I'm watching mine like a hawk now! I put it on at 2 pm yesterday, at 100%. Had music on it, quite a lot. Also was web browsing, then my granddaughter came, she played games on it, there were five of us in the house and it was in use constantly until I went to bed at 1am. That's eleven hours, and it been on two hours this morning as the kids had things to look up for school. Battery is now on 15%. That's still great, and it was the first time music was on it for most of the time it was being used for other stuff. So I estimate another two hours, and it will die and go on charge.

Does anyone else use it when it's plugged in? I don't, I let it charge up... It's good for me to use that time for housework!!!

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iPF Noob

Now I wish I paid more attention, LOL!
Most of the time that I've been using mine since upgrading to iOS5, I've had iRig MIDI plugged in, with the USB power connected. So my battery isn't running down.
I'll definitely be on the look out for this now.

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iPF Novice

Contrary to what a lot of people are reporting, I have had a noticeable decrease in battery life. I was getting well over 15 hours measured battery life, even when using WiFi almost all the time.
Now that I've updated to OS 5, I am not even getting 80% of that. I will be monitoring it, but frankly, if it doesn't improve, I'm going to have to downgrade back to 4.3. I just hope Apple doesn't eliminate signatures for 4.3 very soon (I know 4.3.3 is totally out, and I never saved my SHSH blob). I know how much they want to control what is on everyone's device, but weakening the battery longevity forcefully will be enough for me to demand a replacement and possibly even to demand a downgrade. They don't have any right to forcibly require updates. I only performed the update because I wanted a clean install I had accumulated too much clutter and there were some orphan data that were taking up too much space. If this persists I'm going to have to fight with them.

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